drive-in

drive-in-kaista puhekieltä Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles.

drive-in bank; drive-in church; drive-in funeral parlor

Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.

This fact may seem surprising since the major movie studios, reluctant to risk cheapening their images by releasing first-run films to drive-ins, made only older movies affordable to drive-in operators.

At the end of June 1997, there were 325 cinema sites and 28 drive-in sites in Australia.

The teen-agers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.

At the retarded children′s school, the youngsters occasionally got hamburgers for lunch from a drive-in chain.(..)he cruised the city looking for drive-ins where he wasn′t known.

Even before franchising genius Ray A. Kroc approached Mac and Dick McDonald to become the licensing agent for their small San Bernadino (Calif.) restaurant, scores of drive-in operators had begun copying McDonald′s speedy burger-fries-and-shake menus. Love contends that Kroc′s success came largely from his commitment to automating the preparation of drive-in meals.

For during the fabled Indiana blizzard of ′78, Tom found himself trapped inside the kitchen of the drive-in for three days before his family, and—more to the point—his customers, could reach him.